ANDREW FRONGELLO, CFA, FRM

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Profile

Financial professional with experience in performance measurement, attribution and risk management. Published theories have received industry wide acceptance andhave been incorporated in performance and attribution systems around the globe.

Financial reporting responsibilities have included fixed income, derivatives, and exotic options. Various acquired skills include team and project management, programming, quantitative analysis, handling of large datasets, financial statement analysis and preparation, database management and knowledge of popular industry valuation and computational tools.

Education

MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Cambridge, MASep 04 – May 06

Masters of Business AdministrationGPA (3.7/4.0)

Investment Management Club PresidentGMAT (730/6)

Organized cricket and dodge ball matchesTasting Club President

Internships at Citigroup, State Street, and Credit Suisse

CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY, New Britain, CTSep 94 - May 98

Bachelors of Science, FinanceGPA (3.6/4.0)

Full Academic ScholarshipHonors Program

Finance and Wall Street Journal AwardsDepartment Honors in Finance

Internships at PaineWebber, Global Portfolio Strategies, and Advest

Experience

BI-SAM PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS,Boston, MA & New York, NYMay13 – Apr 14

Director of Learning and Development

  • Ledtraining on performance measurement, attribution, risk, and GIPS
  • Responsible for external client training content generation and delivery
  • Topic content generation including: equities, fixed income, and related derivatives
  • Involved in performance conferences, articles and product enhancements
  • Designed, administered and managed performance related certification programs
  • Implemented a third party e-learning and content management suite
  • Provided supportto product development, sales and implementation teams

CIGNA REINSURANCE, Hartford, CTJun 07 – May 13

Director of Risk Management

  • Managed billion dollar hedge portfolio against variable annuity death benefit liability
  • Designed a daily residual free performance and attribution framework for hedge/liability reports
  • Involved in liability valuation, risk measurement, hedge construction, and performance reporting
  • Built automated attribution reporting system (Matlab) reducing deliverable time by 80%
  • Established protocols and procedures to facilitate efficient operations and audits
  • Led the development, implementation and attribution reporting of an interest rate hedge
  • Liaison between hedge team, client mgmt, traders, IT, accounting and liability groups
  • Key contributor to liability and economic scenario generation modeling and validation

INVESTOR’S BANK & TRUST, Boston, MAJun06-Jun07

Senior Manager of Performance

  • Managed team’s completion of performance, risk and attribution deliverables
  • Oversaw a large conversion and led accounting reconciliation efforts between systems
  • Lead business analyst in third-party attribution software conversion implementation
  • Created, integrated and documented process improvements into group procedures
  • Coordinated interdepartmental efforts to resolve workflow frictions
  • Built automated activity reconciliation process 15 times faster than manual approach

TIMESSQUARE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, Hartford, CTJan00 – Jan 04

Senior Performance Analyst

  • Designed and developed group's first in-house attribution reporting program (VBA)
  • Led team toward the timely and accurate completion of deliverables
  • Computed GIPS performance composites and modern portfolio theory statistics
  • Prepared monthly and multi-period attribution analysis and commentary
  • Developed numerous reports, marketing materials and supporting databases
  • Worked with accounting and systems groups to improve data integrity

Achievements

  • Created the Frongello method for linking single period arithmetic attribution results
  • Published papers in the Journal of Performance Measurement and the CFA Digest
  • Co-authored Riskbook’s “Portfolio Analysis: Advanced Topics”
  • Guest speaker at various global conferences and forums (New York, London, Sydney)
  • Contributing author of the CFA institute’s CIPM performance designation exams
  • Awarded the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation
  • Awarded the right to use the Financial Risk Manager Designation
  • Organized first MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference

Activities

  • Member of the Boston and Hartford Society of Securities Analysts
  • Adjunct Professor of Finance for Central Connecticut State University
  • Programming in languages such as Matlab, SAS, EViews, S-Plus, VBA, SQL, C++, Java
  • Photography, golf, chess, math, cooking, poker, tennis, James Bond films and salsa dancing
  • Build my own computers and design/tailor my own pants